Alfalfa

Growers thin chemically and by hand to achieve those goals, but with increasing labor costs they would prefer to do much of the job with chemicals. Unfortunately, chemical thinning is as much an art as a science, but researchers like San Joaquin...

Nicholas Mills told the recent Dried Plum Day in Tulare of his research, supported by the California Dried Plum Board, on the use of parasitic wasps and life cycle disruption...

In terms of insect pest migration, it is but a stone's throw from where the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) was first discovered in California (Irvine) to the agriculturally rich Coachella Valley in Riverside County...

More than 1,000 people attended this year's fourth annual Salinas Valley Farm Show, sponsored by Gonzales Young Farmers and Western Farm Press...

The man who popularized Ruby Seedless table grapes now is giving the world Holiday Plums, Easy Cut Nectarines, Celebrity Peaches and King Midas Plums...

Sponsored by Gonzales Young Farmers and Western Farm Press, the show will feature not only about 100 exhibitors, but also a precision agriculture seminar-ride and drive program and a continuing education program for pest control advisors sponsored...

Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman's first official visit to the Mid-South provided some glimpses of the “culture shock” that may occur as Congress and the administration consider new disaster assistance legislation...

Ever wonder why the first thing you come across in a newly opened grocery store is the produce section...

Fellow journalist and Northern Californian Aaron Kiess called the other day. "How do you like living in a third-world country?" he asks...